My behavior around food all the good characteristics of classic addiction, and now I know that scientists have proved that the pure chemicals that we love so much - sugar and white flour - are really addictive.
Here's how to tell if your diet has become an addictive behavior:
Do you eat foods containing sugar, white flour, white rice or daily?
If you were to list five of your "comfort food" would be all refined carbohydrates or butter, olive oil, or some other fat?
Do you eat for emotional reasons or when you're stressed?
Do you eat to calm down or feel "loved" contain sugar, white flour and fat?
You think you "need" to get a hamburger or a pizza at a fast food restaurant at least once a week?
Do you regularly buy French fries, potato or corn chips or other fried snacks?
Do you think that "something is missing" you watch television without something to nibble?
If someone suggests that you should not eat sugar, white flour or fast food fat wet, do you immediately reject the idea that absorbed?
Do you feel uncomfortable just reading this?
You feel a little angry when someone tells you that your diet is unhealthy?
Are you quite sure you can continue to eat sugar, white flour and junk food (but perhaps "cut a little"), and still lose your excess weight or improve your health? Despite that it has never worked in the past?
When you go without sugar, pasta, bread or other refined carbohydrates, you feel "strange", a little woozy, or a headache or other unpleasant symptoms?
When you abstain from eating any sweets, bread or other refined carbohydrates, do you start obsessing about food you left, or feel "caught on" and moody?
Have you gained more than 10 pounds since you were 20 years old?
Do you try to avoid having your picture taken?
Do you avoid looking in mirrors?
Do you stay away from meeting your school because you think you're too big?
Do you often feel bloated or get indigestion after eating certain foods, but eat them anyway?
Did you manage to stay thin by spending hours in the gym or because you work for hard work all day?
When you take a vacation from the gym or work, do you tend to gain weight?
Do you have trouble sleeping or wake up to 3.AM?
Do you often lethargic, moody or depressed?
Have you learned the code of push-button for your favorite chocolate bar or snack on vending machine at work?
Your doctor has warned about your blood pressure or you say you're at risk of getting diabetes if you do not lose weight?
Do you intend to follow the advice of your doctor, but just do not quite bypassed it?
If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, I can easily predict that you have tried at least one diet in the past - and possibly many diets - but without ever losing weight.
Suger addiction happens the same way that many people are becoming addicted to heroin, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine.
But most Americans addicted to sugar much earlier age.
Almost all addictions have these components:
1. You begin to eat, drink or use something because it feels good or good taste - or both.
2. You go because it feels good when you do that, and he feels bad when you do not.
3. You are not able to stop, even if it harms your health, and continue to do so even when the dangers became apparent.
Illegal drug use that does not follow this model are caused by modern medicine. drugs against pain, even during medications against headache, may cause painful withdrawal symptoms when you make them. The pills are not themselves make you feel good, but at first they help reduce the pain of your headache.
Because withdrawal symptoms are very similar to, or even worse, the pain you must first took the pill for people to continue taking the medication without knowing where the pain comes. While medically induced addiction aside the first step. All other steps are the same.
Recent scientific studies have shown that most people who are hooked on drugs headaches over the counter, have no idea that they are physically addicted. When they begin to feel withdrawal headaches, they reach for the bottle of medicine because these little pills are headache go away.
For the same reason, most people do not realize they are addicted to sugar and refined carbohydrates. These foods "are so common in our society in which they appear almost every meal, and before all potlucks, parties, and funerals. The snack machine is full, prepared foods at the supermarket are full of them. Even the "healthy bran muffins" at Starbucks are full of them.
If you are physically dependent on sugar or refined flour, you will go into withdrawal symptoms if you go in comfort without these chemicals, even for a few hours. And most people assume that withdrawal symptoms are actually feeling hungry, or signals it is time to eat more of these chemicals! And this is one of the main reasons why most diets do not last a week or two.
sugar withdrawal symptoms are not nearly as hard as the pain that nicotine addicts happens when they stop smoking. And they are not as dangerous as the withdrawal symptoms, if you give up all refined carbohydrates, can be uncomfortable for some time.
Yes, there are withdrawal symptoms. And it is often not easy. But this does not mean you can not give up your habit. In fact, compared with many dependencies, giving up refined sugar and other crabs such as white flour is easy. It's staying "clean" after what is hard.
I recently experienced symptoms of withdrawal because I decided to stop drinking coffee. I knew there would be a headache, so I scheduled my headache for the weekend.
I'm not much around the house during those two days, but Monday was my headaches have disappeared. Caffeine is addictive, but that does not mean I can not stop drinking coffee - it just means that I will be a small price to pay if I do.
Other drugs, like tobacco, have much longer and more alarming symptoms of withdrawal. withdrawal symptoms addiction to sugar, by comparison, are very soft.
Whether or not you've managed to kick a habit of addiction depends on how you handle three different stages in the process.
The first step is status quo - until you gave up your habit. The second step is the week or two when you experience withdrawal symptoms that are a natural consequence of the elimination of addictive substances like sugar, your body. The third step is life after the physical addiction - when your habits and sculptures still play a role, but when the physical withdrawal symptoms are not present.
You'll need to create a desire and a commitment to spend the first step. It is very important to recognize that there are very good reasons why you want not to make changes - you'll enjoy the bagel in the morning, you like the taste of Suger, it helps you feel better the afternoon, you share your property maintained with friends and family, etc. We have all reasons to eat as we do now. Recognizing these reasons - is an important part of the process.
There are also some very good reasons for abandoning sugar and white flour used - it makes you fat, it leads to heart disease and diabetes, etc. Do you have specific reasons for your choice. Be clear in your own mind about what those reasons are.
Look both sides of the issue, find out as much as possible about nutrition, and then make a specific choice to give up sugar and other refined crabs, or not. If you want to learn more about the dangers of sugar and other refined carbohydrates.
Once you make the choice to opt out, you are then faced with a few days with uncomfortable symptoms. This is where many of us fail, despite our best intentions. In fact, many people choose not to give up their addictions, because all they can see ahead of them are the symptoms they feel.
With sugar addiction, withdrawal symptoms can be a weakness, mild nausea, headaches, and other mild, but may be uncomfortable symptoms. My headache from caffeine withdrawal lasted two days, the symptoms of withdrawal from sugar can last a week or two. Some people may feel a little discomfort or not at all.
Instead of seeing a specific beginning and end of these symptoms, they look as if there was just a big red wall. Know how long your symptoms will last will give you the strength to commit yourself to go to the stage of withdrawal.
There are many similarities with the process people go through when they leave an abusive relationship. If you only see the loneliness you feel when you leave, without being able to see that the period of mourning will be over in six months to a year, many people never make the first move.
Also, if you do not recognize that there will be a period of "withdrawal", you may be tempted to turn around and return to the only thing you know for sure these symptoms will disappear.
Many people return to abusive relationships, drugs and bad habits, a few days or weeks before symptoms have disappeared on their own.
For this reason, it is important to mark the moment when you know you will not feel your best. Think of it as a voluntary case of the flu, and commit to work your way through it. In a few days it will be finished, and you are on the other side, looking at a healthy life.
Once you've worked your way through withdrawals, you're home free? No, because the desire for sugar, white flour and greasy foods do not go away. We have a natural, instinctive desire for sweet foods, and our culture taught u
This natural desire for sweet foods is so important that we learn in the coming years cand whole grains.
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